Change of appearance...changing passport photo?

I got my passport 3 years ago and since then my appearance has changed (no longer wear glasses/hairstyle completely different) and it really doesn't look like me at all anymore!

How do I solve this? Is there a way I can simply renew the photo? I tried looking on their website but it doesn't say.

Another thing; I got my passport just before the new "biometric" price increase was introduced...if I have to get a whole new passport would it be one of the new biometric ones or has that not been implemented yet?

I'm aware I'll probably have to pay a fee for this but I think I have no choice tbh, even I wouldn't believe the photo is me...

Your face will still be recognisable to customs/immigration officials, even if you think you look very different.

I had an old passport with me having long, darker hair and then had it all cut short and bleached blonde. No immigration official ever questioned me about it, even in farflung places where the polis have machine guns - gulp!!

I'd save yourself the money and just get a new one when your's expires.

In my passport photo I have short, bleached blonde hair and no glasses. Now I have long, dark blonde hair and wear black-rimmed spectacles. It's never been a problem when travelling. Although going to Australia last year the bloke in immigration shook his head and said sexistly 'you ladies and your hair'.

Mine is just coming up to 10 years old, I look like Morticia Adams in it. I've gone through a million different hairstyles and pairs of glasses/contact lenses, no-one has ever questioned it. My daughter is a bald, 3 month old baby in hers, she's now 4 and a half years old (and no longer bald ), and no-one has ever questioned me about her, either.

I dont think it really matters. My mum looked really different on hers and it never got questioned, and my cousin travelled from swiss to spain last year and he was 10 or something on the photo and he was now 17 and the passport ran out the day he travelled and they didnt even care, it was only a few weeks before where he got started at. anyway im gonna stop baffleing on and say save your money.

I was an idiot when I got my ten year passport - I used the same picture that I applied for my driving license with, which was taken when I was 16!

Ten years older now and I look absolutely nothing like the photo at all, but I've managed to travel throughout the world (including through super strict USA immigration control) with little more than a raised eyebrow.

Only a year to go and I can renew with a more appropriate photo on both my passport and driver's license!

Your face will still be recognisable to customs/immigration officials, even if you think you look very different.

I had an old passport with me having long, darker hair and then had it all cut short and bleached blonde. No immigration official ever questioned me about it, even in farflung places where the polis have machine guns - gulp!!

I'd save yourself the money and just get a new one when your's expires.

They look at the shape of the ears, nose and eyes.

If you've had extensive plastic surgery then you'd probably need a new passport photo.

Is anyone old enough to remember the old stiff dark blue British passports from the 60s-70s?
There were two spaces for a photo on the inside page, you could have your spouse's photo in one, so that you could travel together, or if your appearance had changed, you could have a more recent one in there.
My original photo showed me with short hair and freshly shaved.
In the 70s, to emulate bands like The Eagles etc. I had grown a full beard and moustache, and my hair was almost to my shoulders, I had a new photo like that in the second space.
One day I landed at Heathrow and produced my passport.
The immigration guy perused it for a couple of seconds, then said with a smile, "Don't think much of your missus, pal!"